Quick flight

Cruise missile X-51A Waverider is part of an experimental American rocket program. The first successful launch of this device in May over the ocean off the coast of California.

Drone, released under the wing of the B -52 Stratofortress, with a solid booster overclocked to a speed of Mach 4.8. Then, in the case entered a hypersonic ramjet engine ( skramdzhet ), and with it the rocket reached a cruising speed of 5 Makhov.

The engine used Waverider jet fuel JP-7. Thus, 200 seconds of operation of the jet engine can be considered the world's first test of a real working scrum - jet with a liquid hydrocarbon fuel. Scheduled for the fall of the new test flights.


The purpose of the Pentagon - to create a projectile that could hit any target on earth no more than two hours from the start.





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